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The Buckminster Fuller Institute Bringing about the Design Science revolution to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation.
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The Buckminster Fuller Institute is dedicated to radically accelerating Earthians' health and well-being through comprehensive anticipatory design. Join us by becoming a member at bfi.org.

10/10/2026

“I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Designing for a more resilient future.The BFI Design Lab supports projects using design science to address the challenge...
10/08/2026

Designing for a more resilient future.

The BFI Design Lab supports projects using design science to address the challenges communities and ecosystems face today.

Through research, collaboration, incubation, and access to aligned resources, the Lab helps promising ideas move toward real-world implementation.

Learn more: BFI Design Lab

10/07/2026

via Benjamin Lowder:

“It’s surprising how often I find myself with models in LA hotel rooms 🤓🔻🔺🔻🔺🔻🔺Happy born day Bucky, we’ll be honoring you today The Philosophical Research Society #❤️ ”

10/03/2026

Synergetics Dictionary: ICOSACAP

“Five spherical triangles of a spherical icosahedron, having a common vertex.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller | Synergetics Dictionary

via Synergetics University:”All things seem to relate. Here, the Rhombic Dodecahedron can be seen stellating. Then, when...
10/01/2026

via Synergetics University:

”All things seem to relate. Here, the Rhombic Dodecahedron can be seen stellating. Then, when the vertexes of the stellation are connected, a Cuboctahedron is formed.”

 ? In 1967, Buckminster Fuller was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa on the occasion of the 50-year reunion o...
09/30/2026

? In 1967, Buckminster Fuller was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa on the occasion of the 50-year reunion of his Harvard class of 1917.

By then, Fuller held 28 United States patents, numerous honorary doctorates, and had already received the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute in 1960. In 1968, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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09/29/2026

“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

09/21/2026

Synergetics Dictionary: POLARITY

“All systems are polarized.... There is an inherent polarity in all observation: that is the additive twoness.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller | Synergetics Dictionary

09/20/2026

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”If there’s the simplest takeaway of the whole thing, it’s listening. That is the fundamental root. That is how Rooted in Ethics was created.”
- Madeleine Scrodellis | TreeSisters

“Rooted in Ethics: The Community Tree Stewardship Framework” was collaboratively developed across five years and co-published by TreeSisters, the Fountain, and Indigenous Peoples representatives. It challenges systemic power imbalances in restoration by centering the rights of Nature, women, communities, and cultures while providing principles for ethical tree stewardship - calling organizations to redefine their relationship with Nature.

This conversation was part of the “Rooted In Ethics” webinar, convened by the Nurture Funders Community of Practice and co-hosted by Regenerosity, Be The Earth Foundation and TreeSisters.

Curious? Watch the full conversation via link in bio ‘Watch The Webinars’

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